Prof. Dr. Dagmar Deuber
Chair of Variation Linguistics
Contact:
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstraße 12-20
D - 48143 Münster
Room: 127
Phone: +49 (0) 251 - 83 - 2 56 03
E-Mail: deuber
Consulting hours: by appointment
Administration: Jutta Heuger
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Research Foci
- varieties of English world-wide (special focus: Caribbean)
- English-based Pidgins and Creoles
- language contact
- sociolinguistics
- corpus linguistics
- language use in media
CV
Academic Education
- Post-doctoral degree (‘Habilitation’) in English Philology, University of Freiburg
- PhD in English Philology, University of Freiburg
- PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
- Visiting PhD student, Department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria (DAAD scholarship)
- MA in English, German and Romance Philologies, University of Freiburg
- Visiting student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (DAAD scholarship)
- Visiting student, University of Durham, UK (DAAD scholarship)
Positions
- Chair of Variation Linguistics, English Department, University of Münster
- Assistant professor, English Department, University of Freiburg
- Visiting researcher and lecturer, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad (DAAD scholarship)
- Research assistant, English Department, University of Freiburg
- Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg
- Research assistant in DFG project "Sprache als Mittel der Identitätskonstitution und Abgrenzung" as part of SFB 541 "Identities and Alterities", University of Freiburg
External Functions
Projects
In Process
- Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception ( – )
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/1-2
Finished
- Variation in English on the internet and its implications: an empirical study of web registers in South Asian countries ( – )
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/3-1 - ICE-T&T – International Corpus of English - Trinidad and Tobago component ( – )
Own Resources Project - Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean: Regional, global and transnational aspects in standards of English ( – )
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: DE 2324/1-1
- Translocality in the anglophone Caribbean II: Sociophonetic variation and perception ( – )
Publications
Books (Monographs)
- Deuber, Dagmar. . English in the Caribbean: Variation, Style and Standards in Jamaica and Trinidad Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting London: Battlebridge.
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
- Deuber, Dagmar, Shakir, Muhammad, and Oyebola, Folajimi Kehinde. . “Conventionalization and variation in computer-mediated communication New perspectives on Nigerian Pidgin spelling.” English World-Wide, № 46 (1): 1–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.24018.deu.
- Shakir, Muhammad, Deuber, and Dagmar. . “Code-switching in South Asian English CMC.” English World-Wide, № 45 (3): 311–341. doi: 10.1075/eww.23068.sha.
- Deuber, Deuber, Lacoste, and Véroquique. . “Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica.” Lingua, № 308: 1–19. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103777.
- Meer, Philipp, Fuchs, Robert, Deuber, Dagmar, Lacoste, Véronique, and Hänsel, Eva Canan. . “Prosodic variation of English in Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad.” World Englishes, № 42 (1): 48–72. doi: 10.1111/weng.12615.
- Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Compiling a corpus of South Asian online Englishes: A report, some reflections and a pilot study.” ICAME Journal, № 47 (1): 119–139. doi: 10.2478/icame-2023-0007.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Hackert, Stephanie, Hänsel, Eva Canan, Laube, Alexander, Hejrani, Mahyar, and Laliberté, Catherine. . “The norm orientation of English in the Caribbean: A comparative study of newspaper writing from ten countries.” American Speech, № 97 (3): 265–310. doi: 10.1215/00031283-8791736.
- Hänsel, Eva Canan, Westphal, Michael, Meer, Philipp, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Context matters: Grenadian students' attitudes towards newscasters' and teachers' accents.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, № 37 (1): 16–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00085.han.
- Westphal, Michael, Lau, KaMan, Hartmann, Johanna, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Phonetic variation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, № 37 (2): 357–394. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00098.wes.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Westphal, Michael. . “Quotative be like in Trinidadian English.” World Englishes, № 40 (3): 1–23. doi: 10.1111/weng.12465.
- Meer, Philipp, Westphal, Michael, Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Trinidadian secondary school students' attitudes toward accents of Standard English.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, № 34 (1): 83–125. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00029.mee.
- Hänsel, Eva Canan, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “The interplay of the national, regional, and global in standards of English: A recognition survey of newscaster accents in the Caribbean.” English World-Wide, № 40 (3): 241–268. doi: 10.1075/eww.00031.han.
- Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “A multidimensional analysis of Pakistani and U.S. English blogs and columns.” English World-Wide, № 40 (1): 1–23. doi: 10.1075/eww.00020.sha.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Leimgruber, Jakob R. E., and Andrea, Sand. . “Singaporean internet chit chat compared to informal spoken language.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, № 33 (1): 48–91. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.00002.deu.
- Shakir, Muhammad, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “A multidimensional study of interactive registers in Pakistani and US English.” World Englishes, № 37 (4): 607–623. doi: 10.1111/weng.12352.
- Wilson, Guyanne, Westphal, Michael, Hartmann, Johanna, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “The use of question tags in different text types of Trinidadian English.” World Englishes, № 36 (4): 726–743. doi: 10.1111/weng.12247.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Leung, Glenda. . “Investigating attitudes towards an emerging standard of English: Evaluations of newscasters' accents in Trinidad.” Multilingua, № 32 (3): 289–319. doi: 10.1515/multi-2013-0014.
- Hänsel, Eva, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago.” World Englishes, № 32 (3): 338–357. doi: 10.1111/weng.12035.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Towards endonormative standards of English in the Caribbean: A study of students' beliefs and school curricula.” Language, Culture and Curriculum, № 26 (2): 109–127. doi: 10.1080/07908318.2013.794816.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Modal verb usage at the interface of English and a related Creole: A corpus-based study of can/could and will/would in Trinidadian English.” Journal of English Linguistics, № 38 (2): 105–142. doi: 10.1177/0075424209348151.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Standard English and situational variation: Sociolinguistic considerations in the compilation of ICE-Trinidad and Tobago.” ICAME Journal, № 34: 24–40.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “"The English we speaking": Morphological and syntactic variation in educated Jamaican speech.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, № 24 (1): 1–52. doi: 10.1075/jpcl.24.1.02deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Hinrichs, Lars. . “Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.” World Englishes, № 26 (1): 22–47. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-971X.2007.00486.x.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “"First year of nation's return to government of make you talk your own make I talk my own": Anglicisms versus pidginization in news translations into Nigerian Pidgin.” English World-Wide, № 23 (2): 195–222. doi: 10.1075/eww.23.2.03deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Ethnicity versus national integration in Nigeria: A sociolinguistic perspective.” Journal of Cultural Studies, № 2: 206–218. doi: 10.4314/jcs.v2i1.6243.
Review (Journals)
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of David Jowitt, Nigerian English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019).” English Language and Linguistics, № 25 (3): 671–675. doi: 10.1017/S1360674320000416.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Carolin Biewer, South Pacific Englishes: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Profile of Fiji English, Samoan English and Cook Islands English (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2015).” Anglistik, № 27 (2): 198–199.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Dele Adeyanju, ed., The Sociolinguistics of English and Nigerian Languages (München: Lincom, 2009).” English World-Wide, № 33 (2): 231–235. doi: 10.1075/eww.33.2.10deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Farzad Sharifian and Gary B. Palmer, eds., Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for Second Language Learning and Intercultural Communication (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007).” Multilingua, № 28 (4): 471–474. doi: 10.1515/mult.2009.020.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of John Holm und Peter L. Patrick, eds., Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars (London: Battlebridge, 2007).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, № 33 (2): 338–341.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Michael Aceto und Jeffrey P. Williams, eds., Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, № 31 (2): 250–253.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Paul Skandera, Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English (Tübingen: Narr, 2003).” World Englishes, № 24 (4): 551–552. doi: 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00439.x.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Review of Susanne Mühleisen, Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002).” AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, № 30 (1/2): 271–274.
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Youssef, Valerie. . “Teacher language in Trinidad: A pilot corpus study of direct and indirect creolisms in the verb phrase.” in Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by -. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
- Youssef, Valerie, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “ICE Trinidad and Tobago: Teacher language investigation in a university research class.” in Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference, edited by -. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
Book Contributions
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Westphal, Michael, Brüggemann, Katharina, Fischer, Kathi, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Sociolinguistic competence and TEIL: A study of the sociolinguistic awareness and perceptions of be like among German learners of English.” in Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany, edited by Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, Philipp Meer and Michael Westphal. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003090106-10.
- Meer, Philipp, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Standard English in Trinidad: Multinormativity, translocality, and implications for the Dynamic Model and the EIF Model.” in Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Englishes, edited by Sarah Buschfeld and Alexander Kautzsch. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474445863.003.0013.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Hänsel, Eva Canan. . “The English of current Caribbean newspapers: American, British, in between or neither?” in Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture, edited by Viola Wiegand and Michaela Mahlberg. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110489071_003.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “The Indian tabloid in English: What type of community does it speak to, and how?” in Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination, Vol. 190 of Cross/Cultures, edited by Susanne Mühleisen. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004335288_009.
- Hackert, Stephanie, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “American influence on written Caribbean English: A diachronic analysis of newspaper reportage in the Bahamas and in Trinidad and Tobago.” in Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, edited by Peter Collins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/scl.67.16hac.
- Leung, Glenda Alicia, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch.” in English in the Indian Diaspora, edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g50.02leu.
- Hackert, Stephanie, Deuber, Dagmar, Biewer, Carolin, and Hilbert, Michaela. . “Modals of possibility, ability and permission in selected New Englishes.” in Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Focus on Non-Native Englishes, Vol. 13 of Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change, edited by Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee. Helsinki: VARIENG.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Sand, Andrea. . “Computer-mediated communication in Singapore: Spoken language features in weblogs and a discussion forum.” in Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings, edited by Katrin Röder and Ilse Wischer. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Youssef, Valerie. . “Trinidadian Creole.” in The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English, edited by Bernd Kortmann and Kerstin Lunkenheimer. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110280128.
- Deuber, Dagmar, Biewer, Carolin, Hackert, Stephanie, and Hilbert, Michaela. . “Will and would in selected New Englishes: General and variety-specific tendencies.” in Mapping Unity and Diversity in English World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Vol. 43 of Varieties of English around the world, edited by Marianne Hundt and Ulrike Gut. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g43.04deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “The creole continuum and individual agency: Approaches to stylistic variation in Jamaica.” in Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency, edited by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.37.09deu.
- Hinrichs, Lars, and Deuber, Dagmar. . “Writing non-standardized Pidgin/Creole languages in computer-mediated communication: A comparison of orthographic strategies in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin.” in Sprach- und Kulturkontakt in den Neuen Medien, edited by Ulla Kleinberger Günther and Franc Wagner. Lausanne: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-3-0351-0079-2.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Standard English in the secondary school in Trinidad: Problems - properties - prospects.” in World Englishes - Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, edited by Thomas Hoffmann and Lucia Siebers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/veaw.g40.08deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis.” in Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789042029101_022.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures.” in Structure and Variation in Language Contact, edited by Ana Deumert and Stéphanie Durrleman. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cll.29.14deu.
- Deuber, Dagmar, and Oloko, Patrick. . “Linguistic and literary development of Nigerian Pidgin: The contribution of radio drama.” in The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies., edited by Christian Mair. Amsterdam: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789401200929_022.
Entries in Encyclopediae (Book Contributions)
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Syntax.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Substitution test.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Style.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Interactional sociolinguistics.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Creole continuum.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Kortmann Bernd. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Deuber, Dagmar. . “Constituent test.” in Theories and Methods in Linguistics, edited by Bernd Kortmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Supervised Theses
Doctoral Studies
Hänsel, Eva Canan Standard accents in the Grenadian secondary and tertiary educational system: A study of attitudes and usage Hartmann, Johanna Mobile outer circle speakers’ attitudes towards different varieties of English Durgasingh, Ryan Influences on Trinidadian English Morphosyntax Gao, Cuicui Metadiscourse in Academic Lectures: A Comparative Analysis of MOOCs and University Lectures Lau, Ka Man Language use in social media marketing in Hong Kong: Variation and attitudes Meer, Philipp Standard English in Trinidadian Secondary Schools: Accent Variation and Attitudes Gerfer, Anika White appropriation of Jamaican Creole in reggae and dancehall music Jansen, Lisa English rock and pop performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes Li, Zeyu Acquisition of Rhoticity by Second Language (L2) Learners of English Muhammad, Shakir A corpus based comparison of variation in online registers of Pakistani English using MD analysis Oyebola Kehinde, Folajimi Attitudes of Nigerians towards Accents of English Westphal, Michael Linguistic variation in Jamaican radio Wilson, Guyanne Alexis The Sociolinguistics of Singing: Dialect and Style in Classical Choral Singing in Trinidad Postdoctoral Study
Westphal, Michael Pragmatic variation worldwide: A variational-pragmatic analysis of question tags in different varieties of English